State v. Douglass
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. The testimony of the State’s witnesses who saw the killing was, substantially, that deceased, Miller, and several women, all of them negroes, and among them defendant, were drinking at the saloon of one Flynn, on Seventh and Wash streets, in St. Louis, in the afternoon of the 15th of July, 1882. After they had drunk, the deceased and one of the women went up the alley to the latter’s room, and after remaining a short time, came back to…
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. The testimony of the State’s witnesses who saw the killing was, substantially, that deceased, Miller, and several women, all of them negroes, and among them defendant, were drinking at the saloon of one Flynn, on Seventh and Wash streets, in St. Louis, in the afternoon of the 15th of July, 1882. After they had drunk, the deceased and one of the women went up the alley to the latter’s room, and after remaining a short time, came back to the saloon. When the defendant saw them coming back, she said they had been having illicit intercourse, and that she…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The defendant, a negress, was indicted for murder in the first degree, and on trial had, was convicted of that offense. The person killed was Joseph Miller, a negro, and the killing was done by stabbing him with a knife. Various reasons are urged, why a reversal of the judgment should occur. For the most part, the cause was well tried, but, nevertheless, such errors occurred during the progress of the trial as must accomplish a reversal of the judgment.
I. The State should not have been permitted to ask the witness, Maria Fuller, if she had been confined in the work-house, and this too, over…
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